The time has clearly arrived
for the Supreme Court to act on this divisive issue. The probability is that it
will be a close vote due to the sharp divide on the Court between liberal and
conservative interpreters of the Constitution. My hope is that our national
debate has swung far enough in favor of gay marriage for the Justices to feel
confident in choosing the human-rights view over the option of states' rights.
This view is historically consistent and I feel it is also an inevitable
outcome. Maybe this Supreme Court term will produce this positive outcome.
All heterosexual and homosexual
people are created equal if I may change some words from the Declaration of
Independence without changing the true meaning of that landmark document. Gay
couples are due the equal protection that our Fourteenth Amendment affords all
American citizens. I believe that the time is now for the United States Supreme
Court to legalize gay marriage. Not only for the reasons I have just stated but
simply for the common decency that all Americans should be afforded.
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